President Donald Trump on Tuesday told The Daily Caller that he was never “given messages” that famed reporter Bob Woodward had tried to contact him to interview him for his new book about the Trump White House, and claimed he “probably would have spoken to him if he’d called.”
Woodward did call.
In a transcript of the conversation published by The Washington Post on Tuesday, Woodward walked Trump through his attempts to establish contact with the President through several of his aides and allies, including White House counsel Kellyanne Conway and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Woodward made the calls when he had finished up the manuscript of “Fear” and Trump ended the call by maligning Woodward’s reporting — despite not yet reading the book.
“It’s just another bad book. He’s had a lot of credibility problems,” Trump told the Caller on Tuesday. “I probably would have preferred to speak to him, but maybe not. I think it probably wouldn’t have made a difference in the book. He wanted to write the book a certain way.”
“It’s just nasty stuff. I never spoke to him. Maybe I wasn’t given messages that he called,” he continued. “I probably would have spoken to him if he’d called, if he’d gotten through. For some reason I didn’t get messages on it.”
For some reason I didn’t get messages on it.
Trump
Yeah, you didn’t get the messages for the same reason certain papers were hidden from you so you couldn’t get yourself into trouble. Your staff purposefully didn’t give them to you for the same reason… IF you had spoken to Woodward you would be revealed to be an even bigger asshole.
Fucking idiot.
Just who is in charge down there? Talk about a ‘deep state’. Jesus.
My theory: Trump did know Woodward was trying to reach him. Graham, Kellyanne and others told Trump that Woodward was trying to reach him for comment. There was no way Trump would talk to Woodward. Trump waited to call Woodward until Trump figured that the book was already finished. This was all Trump’s strategy. Now he can say the book is all lies, Woodward never asked me for comment, Woodward is an enemy of the people, blah, blah, blah. This is just another Trump con.